Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

You are an infinite being with infinite love and infinite thoughts.

So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn. Cash it in hell.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

Nothing exists but him.

I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.